by Phillip Rodokanakis
State senator Russ Potts… for his memorable portrayal as a tax-and-spend liberal in the 2004 legislature, when he proposed $2 billion in new state spending.
Ronald Reagan is universally given credit for having reincarnated the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Unfortunately, a lot of he what he stood for is being widely ignored by a number of current Republican office holders. This is particularly true in the Virginia State Senate where the tax-and-spend Republicans outnumber the few fiscal conservative Senators by about 18 to six. More.
